Obit For Inventor Of Center Pivot Irrigation

[jazzbo]

OK maybe not in Thailand but one of the great agricultural inventions of the 20th century:

http://www.nytimes.c...5daugherty.html

[WatersEdge]

Center Pivot Irrigation provides exact placement of irrigation water

as frequently as the crop requires

so that not as much is needed.

with low pressure nozzles to that energy use is extremely efficient.

It is high time that Thailand farming discovers them.

The benefit is huge.

[Lickey]

Center Pivot Irrigation provides exact placement of irrigation water

as frequently as the crop requires

so that not as much is needed.

with low pressure nozzles to that energy use is extremely efficient.

It is high time that Thailand farming discovers them.

The benefit is huge.

Part of my job i the UK was for e rand & son, mainly for diesel engine overhaul, and auto transmissions, and sometimes got called out to service engines that powered a Valmont pivot irrigator, we were the only company authorised to do this service, the most popular engine was the rolls royce eagle diesel, [ Perkins] it had to power a generator and a 6inch bore hole pump, underground wires would make the pivot stretch out to the corners of the field,

A farm in Shorpshire called us, his pivot had blown over, its an insurance thing that all pivots must be parked down wind, and the farmer must call the MET office everyday for a forecast, the wind changed in the night and caused 200,000 quid damage, the insurance paid this after big diccussions with the MET office, can you imagine this would happen here?

Not sure, but i think there are some mobile irrigators between Thai Bo and Nong Khia,

[jazzbo]

can you imagine this would happen here? ... I don't know.. This is the Valmont CPI Dealer for Thailand ... why don't you ask them:

Thai Agro-Tech & Consultants Co., Ltd., Thailand

1051 Krungthep-Nonthaburi Road

Bangkok, Bangsue

Thailand Phone: 66-2-585-1083 Fax: 66-2-910-9446